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2020-07-16

by shaenon on July 16, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Muddled Duddled Fuddled Wuddled Fox
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  1. awgiedawgie
    July 16, 2020, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    I’m getting flashbacks of the Madblood androids, and I’m remembering how Dave could actually tell who was who.

  2. Robert Nowall
    July 16, 2020, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Two to the eighth power?

    • OneUniverse
      July 16, 2020, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

      For some reason, my earlier reply attached below.

  3. Chad Ochocinco
    July 16, 2020, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    I’m not seeing the humor here.

    • gyrre
      July 16, 2020, 4:28 am | # | Reply

      I’m guessing #256 is really into color computer monitors from the early ’90s.

    • Daibhid C
      July 16, 2020, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

      It’s basically the same joke as Kryten from Red Dwarf complaining that “2X4B” is a “jerky” middle name, but at least it’s not “2Q4B”. It’s characters with serial numbers treating them as names, and seeing as much distinction between them as we do with actual names.

      • Chad Ochocinco
        July 16, 2020, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

        I guess it’s kind of funny. The turtle picked a good number, but you wonder whether he has the height, mitts, or speed to play quarterback in a modern NFL offensive system.

        • casimir
          July 16, 2020, 10:51 pm | # | Reply

          Perhaps your own moniker precludes you from finding number names amusing.

      • Chad Ochocinco
        July 16, 2020, 4:57 pm | # | Reply

        A turtle might be good at hiding in the pocket though.

        (I know #12 doesn’t have to be a quarterback, but it’s wasting the number if it isn’t.)

    • DaisyFM
      July 16, 2020, 8:59 pm | # | Reply

      I think it’s funny, but maybe it’s because I’m trans.

  4. palenoue
    July 16, 2020, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    The name’s 12, Number Twelve. The Z is silent.

    • Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
      July 16, 2020, 8:39 am | # | Reply

      Mith Thmith was right.

    • OneUniverse
      July 16, 2020, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

      Exponential growth? Hinting at a viral solution for a plot point?

  5. Urlance Woolsbane
    July 16, 2020, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    Who is #1?

    • Pygar
      July 16, 2020, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      When not time-traveling or letting the dogs out.

    • Shay Guy
      July 16, 2020, 2:38 am | # | Reply

      You are #6.

      (No comma. Seriously, listen to the line, in any episode’s opening. There’s no comma.)

    • Rex Vivat
      July 16, 2020, 2:56 am | # | Reply

      W

    • Rex Vivat
      July 16, 2020, 2:57 am | # | Reply

      We are.
      (No idea why that posted before I could finish typing.)

    • Robert Nowall
      July 16, 2020, 11:07 am | # | Reply

      Who’s number 650? (There were that many cups of milk. One to a turtle?)

      • Shadowmehr
        July 16, 2020, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

        A very sad turtle who complains he’s the last at everything.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      July 20, 2020, 12:02 am | # | Reply

      That would be telling.

  6. Fan of Most Everything
    July 16, 2020, 7:04 am | # | Reply

    What gets really awkward is when multiple tortoises have imaginary friends. They can’t all be #i.

    • Rob Nobody
      July 17, 2020, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

      Nah, the imaginary friends can be 2i, 3i, 4i, etc. No need to make it complex 😀

    • Thenardyr
      July 17, 2020, 6:16 pm | # | Reply

      The frightening part is when imaginary tortoises have imaginary friends too.

      When tortoise i had an imaginary friend, and that one had an imaginary friend, and that one had one…that tortoise’s friend was REAL!

      The second imaginary friend would have been real, but the body…no, don’t ask.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 17, 2020, 11:04 pm | # | Reply

        They don’t become real if they just add more imaginary friends. They have to reproduce with each other, because they only become real when they multiply.

        • awgiedawgie
          July 17, 2020, 11:07 pm | # | Reply

          Strike that. Since i x i is -1, they’d still be imaginary.

          • Thenardyr
            July 18, 2020, 10:47 am | #

            I guess I have to chalk that up to fail on my part. Jokes don’t work if you have to explain them. But, the joke was that i to the fourth power is equal to one, i.e. real number, so a real friend.

          • awgiedawgie
            July 18, 2020, 1:32 pm | #

            Well, now you’re talking about grandchildren, and who could ever imagine that?

  7. jdreyfuss
    July 16, 2020, 8:22 am | # | Reply

    I hear she’s a real square.

  8. MyaApplesauce
    July 16, 2020, 11:33 am | # | Reply

    I had a dream about Skin Horse last night! Someone (presumably Anasigma although my dream never really specified) had captured Dr.Lee and Nera and put them in a small room. Then, they started letting these insectoid robots into the room (the robots were from an episode of a TV show I had watched the evening before, here’s a link to an image of them https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4ZHt9tTLkmQ/maxresdefault.jpg ).
    But instead of being terrified, they were excited by the level of technology in the robots. Dr.Lee even picked one up and commented on how adorable it was. The dream ended with them getting rescued by Nick.

    • MyaApplesauce
      July 16, 2020, 11:35 am | # | Reply

      I’m not sure what that says about me.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 16, 2020, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

        I guess it says that you have a pretty good grasp of what Virginia and Nera are like.

    • jdreyfuss
      July 16, 2020, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

      To be fair, those are adorable killbots.

    • Thenardyr
      July 17, 2020, 6:18 pm | # | Reply

      What show are those bots from?

  9. Uncle Leslie
    July 16, 2020, 11:55 pm | # | Reply

    Yeah, their cooters will poot.

  10. Semper Solus
    July 18, 2020, 2:26 am | # | Reply

    Why is this entry in the comic-title-story called “ira-greens”, when there are two character names of “ira rosenkranz” and “ari green”?

    • Robert Nowall
      July 19, 2020, 1:29 am | # | Reply

      If you put all the web page addresses together, they tell a story.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 19, 2020, 3:25 am | # | Reply

        I think the question is why it says “ira-greens” instead of “ari-greens”.

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          July 20, 2020, 12:04 am | # | Reply

          And why is there an ‘s’ at the end?

          • awgiedawgie
            July 20, 2020, 12:23 am | #

            Because there’s no punctuation in the filenames. The whole sentence in the filename story is “Gavotte was Ira Green’s subordinate.”

        • Semper Solus
          July 20, 2020, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

          That was indeed the question. Granted, if we got this far in the comic, we’d know about the double identities thing, but that kinda means the story doesn’t work as a standalone, right?

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